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﻿﻿Connection – Conversation – Collaboration Social Media: The New Technology =﻿Learning and Technology Living Sky School Division=

A Technology Boot Camp
**November 19** **Luseland School**

[|You too can be a technology guru] [|Tech Support Cheat Sheet]

Overview of Social Media and the impact on society and education

 * [|The New Shift in New Brunswick Public Education] (5:35)
 * [|How Cognitive Surplus will Change the World] (13:08)


 * Questions to ask yourself while viewing **
 * Objective: What key points were made in the videos?
 * Reflective: How does the information given connect with your own experiences?
 * Interpretive: What needs do you see resulting as a result of the shift?
 * Decisional: What has to happen to address these needs with respect to your students? What is your role?

**Task:** Respond to the above questions. We will then discuss as a group.

[|The Case for Social Media in School]s [|Transformative or just flashy educational tools]
 * What makes a social media tool transformative? **

Summarize your thoughts after the reading by responding to this quote, "Technology doesn't improve education, it changes it.....teachers improve education". (Michael Trump, Calbarras County Schools, NC). We will then discuss as a group.

=Overwhelmed Yet?= The best way I know how to start down the road to more technology and social media in the classroom: [|RSS Reader] [|Microblogging]

Note on usernames and passwords when having multiple accounts.

Blogs to try out: Blogs by Discipline Education Blogs I Follow Suggestions from Donna

The Blogging Experience: using a new tool in an old way OR using a new tool in a new, transformative way **Levels of Blogging (**From**: Will Richardson’s [|Blogs, Wikis, Podcast and Other Powerful Web Tools for the Classrooom] ) **
 * Posting assignments (Not blogging)
 * Journaling, i.e. “this is what I did today.” (Not blogging)
 * Posting links. (Not blogging)
 * Links with descriptive annotation, i.e., “This site is about…” (Not really blogging either, but getting close depending on the depth of the description).
 * Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked. (A simple form of blogging).
 * Reflective, metacognitive writing on practice without links. (Complex writing, but simple blogging, I think. Commenting would probably fall in here somewhere)
 * Links with analysis and synthesis that articulate a deeper understanding or relationship to the content being linked and written with potential audience in mind. (Real blogging).
 * Extended analysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on previous posts, links, and comments. (Complex blogging).

Create a [|collection] of favourite blog posts and blogs that you recommend from the reading that you are going to be doing. =**Resources**=
 * Learning Task for the next 1 to 1 meeting: **

[|Edmodo] - online class delivery [|Diigo] - Social Bookmarking: Collaboration [|Donna DesRoches Social Bookmarking] [|Donna DesRoches Social Bookmarking 2] [|Best in Content iSITS] - suggestions from iSITS committee [|Resources from Donna] [|TED Talks] - videos on a variety of topics that will make you think [|Ministry Resources] - list of all the resources available from the Ministry including the Encyclopedia Britannica for Elementary, Middle Years and High School Students [|Global Issues in Context] - Teachers and students in Grade 7+ will find this a useful research tool Passport to the Internet

Waybackmachine - A tool to show students that what they put on line stays online in some way.

Snowball Activity - move chairs into a circle in the middle of the room. You will need a pen. "The most important things for kids growing up today is the love of embracing change". (John Seely Brown)
 * Exploring the concepts of connection, conversation and collaboration **

**Hands-on Activities: Exploring Social Media**

**Learning New Apps** //When a teacher thinks about learning a new technology, they think about who’s going to teach them in a classroom and how they will use it in the classroom. When game designers want to teach you something – they make a game full of challenges – and a community of peer assisted learners forms around solving them. Inside and outside the game – there is no assumption that you need a teacher at all, **but that you are literate enough to participate**. //([|Dean Groom])

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to learn a new application or online tool: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1. Play – approach the learning as you would a game <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2. Take risks – click any button <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3. Cheat – find the tutorials, ask a friend or colleague for help <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4. Problem-solve <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5. Keep trying!

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What you need to do: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1. Determine what the application is meant to do <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2. Sign-up if required <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3. Explore, experiment, try a few things… <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4. Consider how you would use this tool for your own learning or management of your own resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5. Consider how you might use the application in your classroom with students <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">6. How does this tool/application facilitate connection, conversation and/or collaboration

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Collaboration: Explore 2 - 3 different tools and fill in the categories on the google [|spreadsheet]: **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some social media tools to explore: **
[|AudioBoo] [|Vocaroo] [|Soundation] [|Voki] || [|VoiceThread] [|My StoryMaker] [|StoryBird] [|ZooBurst] [|Glogster] [|Voki] [|Blabberize] [|Museum Box] || [|Kwout] [|Awesome Highlighter] [|PrimaryPad] [|CoSketch] [|Scribblar] || [|Poll Everywhere] [|Doodle] [|Crappy Graphs] [|Pretty Graphs] || [|Kidblog] [|Posterous] [|Edublogs] || [|Prezi] [|Slideshare] || [|Piclits] [|Wordia] [|Tagu] [|Worlde] || [|Smilebox] [|Picturetrail] [|Aviary] [|Be Funky] [|Picnik] [|Flickr] [|Big Huge Labs] || [|Diigo] [|Delicious] [|Only2Clicks] [|LiveBinders] [|Netvibes] [|PageFlakes] || [|Today's Meet] [|Twiducate] [|Twitter] [|Wifiti] || [|ScreenSnapr] [|ScreenJelly] [|Screenr] || J[|ayCut] [|DragonTape] [|Stupeflix Studio] [|MeMoove] [|Flixtime] || [|TogetherVille] [|Edmodo] || [|MindMeister] [|Webspiration] [|Bubbl.us] [|WallWisher] [|LinoIt] || [|TimeToast] [|TimeGlider] || [|Gapminder] [|Visual Thesaurus] [|Wolfram Alpha] [|Goofram] || [|Google] - Create an account and have access to gmail, Google Reader, iGoogle, Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Forms and more....
 * ~ <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audio and Music ** ||~ **Digital Storytelling** ||~ **Productivity** ||~ **Polls and Surveys** ||~ **Blogs** ||~ **Presentations** ||~ **Words** ||~ Images and Photos ||
 * [|Blip.fm]
 * ~ Organization ||~ Backchanneling ||~ Screen Capture ||~ Video Editing ||~ Social Networks ||~ Brainstorming ||~ Timelines ||~ Search Tools ||
 * [|DropBox]

Digital Citizenship
Review and discuss the [|document]

**Reflection**
Use this as your starting point: **[|Roller Coaster]** Teaching in a connected classroom: [|Loss] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And reflect on these three questions (via the Couros Brothers)
 * 1) What did you learn? Will today make a difference? What would you like to learn next?
 * 2) Did today alter the way you think about technology - and then how would it be used in the classroom?
 * 3) What could help you make the shift?